Remove tab close buttons from xfce4-terminal

Renaud OLGIATI (Ron) renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org
Wed Aug 23 17:30:27 CEST 2017


On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:57:19 -0400
Igor Zakharov <f2404 at yandex.ru> wrote:

> >>  there is much bigger disaster - when you accidentally make a
> >>  middle-click on the tab it is closed without warning...  

> > Though this thread was 9 years ago... I'm still hassled by this problem: I
> > often switch to a tab by mouse, and the cursor stays on that tab, then later
> > I use middle-click to paste in the command line.. the tab is closed.
> > Is it possible to get a warning? Or any "better practice"? Thanks.  

> You can disable this feature by setting
> MiscTabCloseMiddleClick=FALSE
> in your ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc.

Thank you for this, the problem has plagued me for years, to the point I now routinely clicked inside the terminal window before middle-clicking to paste...
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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